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...thing will not change—the location, Loker Commons. “It is actually a great space,” Corker said, though he had worried that late night attendees would be wary of the notoriously quiet and studious area...
Next door was her opposite, Phil K. Lichtenstein ’72, a studious junior from a backwoods high school. He wanted to work with rural folks in the future, either as a forest ranger or a doctor. Everyone knew Phil: he held spots on Quincy’s Social Committee and HoCo and a job at the dining hall desk, checking everyone in. But he was still shy and awkward around girls...
They wrote them off as ‘Jennys’, a term referring to the sarcastic and studious heroine of the popular movie Love Story. Sometimes, the stereotype was true. The women beat far stiffer admissions competition; Harvard matriculated four times as many students as Radcliffe and Radcliffe’s admissions officers placed a stronger emphasis on grade point average. “Women were admitted to Radcliffe by a really different formula, a different philosophy,” says Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, who used to work...
...walked the halls in bathrobes and slippers. Some of the Quad girls, excited by the proximity of so many eligible bachelors, chased after their male neighbors. In order to escape from the buzz of girls in their rooms, some men sought refuge in the rooms of more quiet and studious Cliffies.first at some uncivilized hour and rate them based on how obnoxious they were: whether their underwear showed, would they ever be able to enter the civilized world, how ripped their jerseys were,” she says. Those boys they targeted were angry, but others laughed. She had managed...
...boys whom over-eager Cliffies accosted at all times, and he escaped to Kleeman’s room, an island of calm in the midst of a “frenetic” gaggle of girls. She and her roommate were, she says, “a little more studious and a little more goody-goody.” She didn’t chase romance; it found...